$1.8-million line would link Ontario to Manitoba.$1.8-million line would link Ontario to Manitoba Environmental and engineering studies will soon be undertaken for a proposed Ontario Hydro Ontario Hydro was the official name from 1974 of the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario which was established in 1906 by the provincial Power Commission Act to build transmission lines to supply municipal utilities with electricity generated by private companies transmission line in Northern Ontario Northern Ontario is the part of the province of Ontario which lies north of Lake Huron (including Georgian Bay), the French River and Lake Nipissing. Northern Ontario has a land area of 802,000 km² (310,000 mi²) and constitutes 87% of the land area of Ontario, although it that would carry electricity generated in Manitoba. The Ontario portion of the line is expected to cost approximately $1.8 billion. Bill Morrison Bill Morrison is the name of several persons:
Morrison said an agreement to purchase the power from Manitoba was signed last year. The idea for the transmission line was contained in the utility's demand/supply proposals which were created to meet the expected growth in the province's need for more electricity. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Ontario Hydro, the line would allow for 1,000 megawatts of electricity to be transmitted annually for 22 years. The first transmissions are expected to take place in the year 2000. The line, when complete, would run from the Ontario-Manitoba border to either of two final destinations, Timmins or Sault Ste. Marie Sault Sainte Marie — pronounced "Soo Saint Marie" (IPA /su seɪnt məˈɹi/) — is the name of two cities on the Saint Marys River, which forms part of the boundary between the United States and Canada. . It would then tie in with existing transmission lines running to southern Ontario. Ontario Hydro expects the study, which will also contain alternative routes and locations for new transformer transformer, electrical device used to transfer an alternating current or voltage from one electric circuit to another by means of electromagnetic induction. stations, to be completed by mid-1991 and the environmental assessment submitted to the provincial government by the end of the same year. The $13-billion agreement with Manitoba was signed in December of last year. According to Hydro, Ontario will pay about 3.7 cents per kilowatt-hour (1989 dollars) over the life of the agreement. |
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